Greg Kaufmann

Banks on the Run (Continued)

Greg Kaufmann on April 30, 2013 - 2:07 PM ET

A home mortgage office in Springfield, Illinois. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

You can’t talk about poverty without talking about the practices of the big banks, including their continuing refusal to stem the foreclosure crisis through mortgage principal reductions.

This Week in Poverty: Ignoring Homeless Families

Greg Kaufmann on April 19, 2013 - 11:34 AM ET

A homeless family at the DC Village shelter. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

More than one-third of Americans who use shelters annually are parents and their children. In 2011, that added up to more than 500,000 people.

This Week in Poverty: Banks Got Nowhere to Run To, Baby

Greg Kaufmann on April 12, 2013 - 9:42 AM ET

A protest outside the New York Stock Exchange. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Last year, US Bank held its annual shareholders meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of its corporate headquarters. The event was dominated by shareholders and proxies who are members of Minnesotans for a Fair Economy, an alliance of community, faith and labor organizations working for a more equitable economy.

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This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness

Greg Kaufmann on April 5, 2013 - 10:13 AM ET

A homeless man in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel)

Sequestration can seem a little vague, abstract, difficult to wrap your head around.

This Week in Poverty: SEIU Hospital Workers Strike for Affordable Healthcare

Greg Kaufmann on March 18, 2013 - 9:51 AM ET

Healthcare workers on strike. (Credit: SEIU1199 NW)

“Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare ministry committed to providing for the needs of the communities it serves—especially for those who are poor and vulnerable.”

This Week in Poverty: 'A Place at the Table' and 'American Winter'

Greg Kaufmann on March 8, 2013 - 11:55 AM ET

City Harvest Mobile Market food distribution site, New York. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

A Patriotic Fix for America’s Hunger Epidemic

School Breakfasts and Ending Child Hunger

Greg Kaufmann on March 5, 2013 - 10:30 AM ET

(Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Five years ago, Share Our Strength CEO Billy Shore began to wonder why the number of hungry kids in the US hadn’t declined significantly since 1984, when he and his sister founded the anti-hunger organization.

This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions

Greg Kaufmann on March 1, 2013 - 12:15 PM ET

Senator Jeff Sessions speaks at the Values Voter Summit, October 7, 2011. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

An excellent new report from Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama proves that we spend more than $60,000 on every poor household in the United States every year, thereby raising the typical poor household’s standard of living above that of the typical middle-income household.

This Week in Poverty: How Obama Can Fight Hunger Now

Greg Kaufmann on February 22, 2013 - 10:32 AM ET

Volunteers fill bags at a food bank in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

In his State of the Union address, President Obama offered the kind of concrete proposals that anti-poverty advocates have long been waiting for: raising the minimum wage, expanding high-quality early childhood education and creating new “ladders of opportunity” in twenty of the poorest communities in the country.

Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF

Greg Kaufmann on February 19, 2013 - 9:46 AM ET

Reuters/Molly Riley

The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program was created by what is commonly referred to as “welfare reform” in 1996. It replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as the program through which some low-income families are able to receive cash assistance.